A innovative guitarist, James Gurley, passed on Sunday. He was in one of my favorite bands, Big Brother & the Holding Company and was call the "father of the psychedelic guitar". Big Brother was the band Janis Joplin joined up with in San Francisco.
Rest easy, James.

This is some of his stuff stuff from 1968.
http://www.bing.com/videos/?FORM=MFEVID&publ=2BE19A43-506C-4905-B386-894988BC18EB&crea=STND_MFEVID_core_HuffPo_CustomVidLink_1x1&q=James+Gurley&docid=1416324515184#